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put their name and organization in the chat in case people haven't been before

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we won't do a full round of intros but that'd

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be great and yeah i thought we'd start with the

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um tim's review which as everyone knows

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the kind of consultation uh for that

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was closed i think they i don't

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know if it was the final numbers but i knew that kind of towards the end i'd already had about 40

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000.

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responses or something.

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So a lot of stuff to wade through there.

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I think probably quite a good bulk of that will be kind of individual responses

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and things like that.

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It sounds like they're planning on using AI to summarize stuff.

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So hopefully people's points don't get lost.

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It

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sounds like they're kind of going to be doing a lot of work over the summer,

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but also promoting,

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I don't

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know if people have heard about,

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but you can...

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facilitate a workshop and send them some kind of

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writer populations who

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are interested in doing that.

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It'd be great to hear if anyone is planning on doing that or has

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done it.

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But yeah,

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also just good to hear if anyone has any sort of

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intel or kind of thoughts and reflections on the

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process or where they think it's headed really.

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Yeah, no huge intel and not a super

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clear sense of where exactly it is going.

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But I imagine we'll talk about

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maybe the Melbourne report gives some clues.

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It sounds like the interim report,

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they had originally been saying it would come out this month,

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but it sounds like Pat McFadden said at the select committee this

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morning that it's going to come out before summer recess.

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So it sounds more like mid -July.

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And yeah,

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and then it sounds like they're planning quite a lot of different kinds of engagement,

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including like they've talked about,

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I've had people mention to me that they're planning to do sort of like expert sessions

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with the review group.

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Yeah.

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I also kind of get the sense that maybe the review group still hasn't met that many times.

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Yeah.

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I

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guess we have a degree in the

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design process.

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It does seem like they're kind of...

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trying to kind of adopt principles much more than the government normally does

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on it.

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I suppose there's still a bit of a sense of there's going to be a report

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that goes to the Secretary of State and then the Secretary of State ultimately

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is deciding what happens.

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And then with kind of

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coinciding with things,

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mismatch

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towards the end of that process in terms of what actually proposals

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they take forward.

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But that's just more of a...

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So I was at the CPAG Scotland conference last

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week.

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All the week before.

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So I'm sure anybody else who was there can also chip

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in.

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But Stephen Timms was talking.

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And what I took from that was that

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he was intimating that there'd be an interim report in

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July with a view to publishing proposals

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before November.

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So I don't know if that means in time

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for decisions to be made.

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to inform the budget or what,

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but that's the bit of information that we

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got from him that I thought was potentially quite helpful.

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and that's really useful.

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I'm riding roughshod over my own agenda here,

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but I think it relates to an interesting point around

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the UC review,

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which we've heard they seem to be planning in

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terms of timings for the next phase

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of that to try and put some stuff in the autumn budget

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for that as well.

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So it might be that.

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That's just general plans for...

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DWP trying to put a load of different bits in for the

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autumn budget potential.

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Anything

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on that team's review?

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Tom?

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Tom Wardle from Marie Curie.

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I just posted in the chat that there's just an update from Marie

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Curie about the joint letter that went out

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on stopping PIP reassessments for people with a terminal or

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progressive life limiting condition.

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Yeah,

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there was a response,

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but it was a very top -line one,

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so there's further action planned on that.

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It

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sounds like generally Stephen's been quite,

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well,

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you'd expect him to be fairly cagey about it.

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Any plans does seem to be pointing

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towards the fact that there's meant to be a co -design

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process with the group,

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so decisions are kind of...

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been made there so i don't think they're going to kind of be particularly open

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about committing to much detail as yet

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and yes

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and jim i think they're thinking mid -july and then sometime

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no one

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has anything more say on the tims or people would

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sort of move on to milburn slightly without wanting

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to have

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been working on the review uh but it might be good to some people's

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reflections sort of they might want to sort of

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in a more private setting then

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from DWP.

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If anyone else has any,

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it may end up just

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general.

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Does anyone

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have any thoughts?

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Has anyone managed to read the whole thing yet?

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It did say to do so at the start.

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Yeah,

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I'm

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Emily Andrews, I'm from the Learning and Work Institute and I would just say one reflection

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that I've had over the last week is that the review makes a lot of...

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The fact that we don't have a system,

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which I thought was quite,

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you know, it kind of,

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it was a point that was well made.

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He's like, at the moment,

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what kind of often is

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called system integration is really parallel play is

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a term that he used.

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And so he says,

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you know, so we need some sort of system was the

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thing in the report.

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But then what's interesting is that talking to people at

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where is where does the youth employment system sit?

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It sits at MSA level,

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you know,

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at local level.

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And you've got some places are delivering youth trailblazers and some of them aren't.

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And, you know, you've got this real kind of patchwork across the country.

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And of course,

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the way that they're.

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I would say this without DWP in the room.

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I'd probably say it to them in the room.

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The way that the youth guarantee was commissioned has not

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exactly, sorry,

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not the youth guarantee,

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the youth trailblazers were commissioned is not necessarily promoting

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of system integration and innovation because it was all things were needing to be

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done quite quickly and the reporting requirements have had to kind of go up to DWP quite

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quickly.

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So a lot of those,

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you know,

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that system join up is quite hard to do in that commissioning environment.

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But also I think it's worth noting that a lot of the local places that I've spoken

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to don't feel that they've been particularly had a voice with.

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in the Melbourne Review,

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and they kind of want to make sure that they do,

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because a lot of this is ultimately going to rely on them.

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I imagine that he's talking to some places and not others,

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but I just wondered if that's something that people were hearing and if that

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chimes with what they know.

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Thanks.

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Sue?

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I sit on the Disability Benefits Consortium steering group and

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we had a meeting yesterday.

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I haven't read the whole report,

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but my fellow policy,

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my fellow co -chair,

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I should say,

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Jeff Finister,

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who many of you will know.

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is wading his way through it and has drawn the conclusion that,

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and as most people here will know,

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he's steeped in this stuff.

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He's drawn the conclusion that conditionality might be on the horizon

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for PIP recipients.

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And whilst that might be for those younger

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claimants under 22s,

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there is inherent,

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I would argue,

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inherent in that is the risk of a...

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thin end of a wedge being established.

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Well that's just speculation.

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The latter part is just speculation on my part.

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You know,

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kind of similar perspectives on the Alan Milburn review.

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I think there's an incredibly helpful direction of travel about a

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whole systems joined up whole society approach,

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which I think is what is needed.

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I'm actually responding to it by writing a blog or an essay,

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mini essay for the...

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1 million futures substack that Alan Milburn has set up for people

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who are steeped in this area to essentially put in contributions and

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submissions and obviously they'll be vetted as to whether they're

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good and relevant contributions.

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There was some interesting language on social security,

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one which was positive and one which was slightly worrying.

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The first one...

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was around the failures of the deficit -based approach,

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but there was also quite a lot of language around social security as an investment in a tool,

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which is helpful.

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But yeah,

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I think there is recognition that the way in which PIP

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frames and the WCA frames health is

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not helpful in terms of getting the right support to people at the right time in

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the right way.

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And that's really helpful.

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The more frightening side of it was...

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The good is that there's a recognition that there are lots of missed opportunities

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for engaging with people within the system to get them connected

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to the right support,

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particularly young people.

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That's great,

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but the underlying potentiality of that is exactly what Sue just raised,

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which is the possibility of conditionality being built in for the under -22s,

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additional conditionality.

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So I think that's something that we need to look at carefully.

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I don't think that would be driven by Alan Melbourne himself.

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I think he's much more on why are we not providing these young people with

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the intensive whole society effort support that they need.

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but unfortunately he's not going to be the only player in this room he's just going to produce

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the report and it'll be interpreted in whatever way it is on the tims

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review we did put in our evidence submission um based on our

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experience of the transition from pip to adp but i

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did wonder if

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anyone was planning on doing the workshop in a box submission.

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It would be good to hear if organisations are thinking of doing that,

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because I'm going to be quite stretched time -wise,

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so I was keen to hear what others are thinking around that.

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Thanks,

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Thomas. Yeah,

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it sounds like Sue's planning a couple of workshops

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in a box.

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I'll touch base with her on that.

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We've been sort of pondering it.

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We did actually offer to host her.

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workshop with welfare rights advisors previously kind of got turned down

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so i don't

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know if this is slightly outjoyed as a result of that or not but i think

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that there is

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a

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risk really particularly being quite pointed

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with like some of the discourse and actually some of the sort of um

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the social

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security system and you know like um quite unhelpful

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comparisons between spending

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times more on social security for young people than on employment

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support when they're just completely different things with both

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very legitimate purposes and things like that really so kind

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of like quite concerned about those elements

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but kind of pleased that you know it's acknowledging the role of child poverty

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within the issue.

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Thank

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you.

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Yeah just a couple of quick reflections.

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I also have some concerns,

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as Sue was highlighting.

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My worry,

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I think, is that we might have a completely different under -25s

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benefit system,

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which would in effect merge universal credit and PIP and

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make it into a new young person's.

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benefit of some kind,

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which could contain different kinds of conditionality.

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The other bit that worries me is although that it's

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mentioned the demand side issues,

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I'm not quite sure whether they've got that right

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in the context of what employers would need to

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be doing in order to hire and

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retain the

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numbers of young people that are regarded as

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being problematic under the current system by the Melbourne review.

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There was no mention in the review at all that I could see about reasonable

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adjustments that employers might have to make.

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And in the context of AI and the

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impact of AI on entry -level jobs,

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I just wonder what the broader strategy is for that part

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of the labour market,

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because that seems to me to be complete.

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hole in the whole idea,

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really, that you could end up by changing the benefit system,

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but at the same time,

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there's no jobs for people to go into.

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But I might be misinterpreting,

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so I'd be interested to hear other people's views on that.

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Thanks.

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Yeah,

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certainly very concerned that conditionality

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feels like the easiest lever to pull,

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and the one they have the most direct influence on,

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but not put.

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probably not the most important by any stretch.

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Scott?

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I'm Scott.

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Scott Compton from Action for Children.

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So I think our immediate

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response to the interim report was pretty positive.

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I think on the big picture stuff,

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it gets a lot right.

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It makes a really compelling case.

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Yeah,

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really welcome to at least see that emphasis on the demand side.

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even if clearly there are still gaps there.

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Where I think we take

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issue the most is in that welfare chapter.

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And I think my biggest

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critique I felt reading it was that it does this

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idea of perverse incentives in the system.

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It's doing all of the heavy lifting there.

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And it was quite jarring where in the earlier in the report,

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they did a really good chapter.

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And there's that complimentary report inside the mind of a need as well that

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that sort of centers lived experience.

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But none of that was present in the welfare chapter.

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It didn't feel at all like they'd

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done much talking to disabled young people who

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were going through the UC health and the PIP systems.

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navigating that,

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the overwhelming sort of challenges

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they face in getting support and just how difficult it is to access.

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So all of these kind of sort of economic incentives are

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sort of doing all the work there.

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So I think,

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you know, we're quite keen to push the

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review to,

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you know,

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just to try and understand what they are doing.

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over the summer you know to what extent they're going to be speaking to

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young people young disabled people with experience of the welfare system

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because it doesn't feel very present at the moment and that

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that whole argument I think you know they make some sensible points about the binary

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nature of the system the fact that you know young people are sort of left without any

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contact that's all reasonable stuff but the idea that

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kind of

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all of these young people are being kind of incentivised to claim

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sickness benefits because it means

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that they get more money with less requirements.

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I just don't see how that is being borne out of scale.

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And then,

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yeah, I totally agree on the conditionality side.

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That does seem like the direction of travel over kind of classic

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cuts, if you like.

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It was encouraging,

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I think Milburn said on the Today programme that morning that,

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you know,

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the way to reduce the welfare bill is getting young people into us.

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So hopefully we're moving out of that space.

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But I think as a previous speaker said,

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you know, ultimately it's not down to him and the Secretary of State will take what he wants

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from this review and other reviews that are happening.

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But again,

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my biggest issue with the conditionality thing is...

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They're talking a lot about the Netherlands,

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aren't they?

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And they're looking internationally to these other systems,

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but these are systems that just exist with such different infrastructure

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around them that enable those.

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Yes, there might be higher expectations,

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but they exist in a much more supportive environment.

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I think

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the emphasis on participation is interesting.

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but they only seem to be really interested

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in work as opposed to the

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value in a whole range of different types of participations,

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whether that might be volunteering,

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supported internships,

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training, education.

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Ultimately,

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while it's a report on needs,

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it's very much framed around work,

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and that's particularly concerning,

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I think, for disabled people.

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in the welfare section how it does acknowledge

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some of the things you'd want it to acknowledge like the fact that there will

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be young people who can't work and it acknowledges like

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the purpose of PIP is to cover extra

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costs and isn't a work -based thing but then sort

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of proceeds to gloss over both of those points quite quickly after having made them

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really.

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Yeah I think it's kind

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of right to much harder

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on those things really.

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Yeah, I agree that they get most of the drivers and

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things like that right.

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But yeah,

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I think where we are a bit more element is that the framing

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and the benefits stuff does hint at the kind of policy conclusion of

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switching spending from financial benefit support onto employment

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support, which,

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yeah,

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I think, I mean,

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I think the answer to this stuff is probably investment in employment support,

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but you just...

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By switching away from benefit spending,

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you're kind of assuming that people will

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move into employment and have their incomes covered that

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way. Especially if you're talking about people who are inactive for

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health reasons,

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that's going to be a much,

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much longer journey for a lot of people.

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And it seems like there's a possibility

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that that would mean living on lower incomes,

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which...

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which is going to be very difficult if that is what the policy ends up being.

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And yeah,

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I agree with Scott.

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I'd like to have seen a bit more around other kinds of participation

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rate.

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One thing that we found in our NEATS report is that when you look

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at the UK compared to countries that have low NEAT rates,

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the entire difference is that they have more young people

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in education,

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in vocational education in particular.

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We have quite similar rates of young people in work.

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I don't think the report really frames things in that way.

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It's really about work,

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isn't it?

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So kind of looking into the realities of that a bit more

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would have been nice.

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But yeah,

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I mean, overall, not super down.

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I think a good job of what they come

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up with for the next one.

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There's a couple of things there that are concerning.

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um yeah just to just to briefly add i mean i definitely agree with everything that was said about this of

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helpful wider framing although i did only read the welfare section i have to make

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even though we got told not to um i think yeah

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I thought what was in the other positive thing I think was what there was sort of implication

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that like there was a kind of acknowledgement that essentially like the work search

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conditionality for people on the intensive regime is kind of too much but obviously there was this kind of like

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as others have mentioned there was a kind of implicit also I guess argument

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that there wasn't enough conditionality for disabled people.

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And then I think the other things we were concerned by was like,

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yeah, I would agree that the sort of the comparison between the sort of the language around

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incentives and the kind of the section where it kind of compared how much people would

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get with PIP plus UC Health versus like work or

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kind of like just compared to the standard allowance did sort of seem to be potentially laying

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the ground for some kind of cut or changes to the rates or something.

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and the other yeah the other bit that we were quite concerned about was the other section about this

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sort of assessment process where it talked a bit about sort of it's suddenly like it kind of maybe gave the

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impression that there'd been a bit more political involvement in that or just suddenly all

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the footnotes disappeared and it was just these assertions about like face -to -face assessments

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will be actually kind of help it kind of implying that that would that

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was like part of what had gone wrong was that there weren't enough face -to -face assessments um

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so yeah and this sort of language around like

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I don't know,

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the tightness or toughness of assessments was also a bit of a concern.

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But yeah.

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Yeah,

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and there's some stuff there.

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I think about work coaches as well,

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I think.

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I'm conscious that we're going to some degree

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repeat the conversation we've had in 15 minutes' time.

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But obviously,

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we need to kind of hear people's

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thoughts.

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But I think it has been useful to kind of probably cover it in a slightly more

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open...

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It's probably

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worth us moving swiftly on.

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Does anyone have any

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employment insurance?

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Were you

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going to talk a bit about that?

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Yes,

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please.

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Just a quick update.

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The Women's Budget Group met Debbie

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Abrahams,

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the chair of the Work and Pension Select Committee,

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to express some concerns about the unemployment insurance proposal,

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which was in the last

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year's green paper,

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Pathways to Work,

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but has seemed to go a bit silent since then.

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So we wanted just to try and see if there was anything else

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that we could wiggle out of her and other

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people.

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So our concern is that with

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the abolition of contributory or rather new style

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employment support allowance for people with long term conditions,

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that would erode the access to independent incomes

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for women.

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So that's a particular women's budget group concern,

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but obviously there are also concerns from a disability perspective as well.

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So Debbie Abrahams did

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promise to talk to Stephen Timms informally

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and did say that some of the parts

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that were in the green paper had been dropped.

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